State v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Peeler (2004), State v. Chasity West (2005)
38 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Delaware v. Fensterer · Nicholas v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Hernandez v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Slimskey , 257 Conn. 842 , 855-56, 779 A.2d 723 (2001). On appeal, the appellate tribunal reviews the confidential records to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion in concluding that no information contained therein is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are mindful that the restriction of a defendant's access to a witness' confidential records implicates the defendant's constitutional right to impeach and discredit state witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“especially probative of the victim's ability to know and correctly relate the truth so as to justify breaching their confidentiality in disclosing them to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.